wade simmons (unbalanced and biased... oh... don't forget, unfair)

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Thank you to the blogger team

I'm here at the conference and blogger's spam-prevention robots have locked down my account access. While this is a slight inconvenience, I'm glad they do this sort of thing. I'm sure that since I kept linking to the conference web site that I got red flagged as a link spammer.

Ever use hopper? This is a tool to hit your app hard and fast and randomly, oh my.You need to have a plan (whatever that means) and you need to connect hopper to a debugger.Generate and keep track of your hopper logs.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Getting your embedded image somewhere

WinPE/SDI

Use SDILoader to create one SDI file, copy hte Pre-FBA image to the mounted SDI diskUse SDIMGR to do more stuff to transfer the image on another SDI file (I'll have to look that up and get back to you).

SDI2HD - 16 bit thing

Winternals: Remote Recover (www.internals.com)Designed for the IT world... connect to a remote PC and mount the hard drive to a host (NIC must have DOS driver) hmmm...

The Venetian is sweet! I booked my own travel so I'm in the Super 8 Las Vegas. It is only a 15-20 walk. I may take a cab at night. But I do have my throw and run money clip, so I could save some cab fare.

Back to the seminar:

Target designer -When you are checking component relationships, check the Auto-resolve dependencies box or you can go through each line generated by hand... there are a lot.

Tip: start with the smallest feature set possible and add from there. (embedded remember)

You can use an estimate footprint for a component to let you know if you want to add it or not.You can build a component that has only the subset of an existing component if you want to.

Tip: Minimum 512K device. But if you need fancy stuff you need a whole bunch. Build the app, test, trial and error, empirical analysis.... just figure it out.

Guess: Multimedia - min 1G+

Build Options: The debug build is for Microsoft internal development and there is no license configuration. You can get a product identification key from MS and a list of stickers to put on your devices. Without a key, your build will time bomb on you.You should probably just use Release if you can.

So we just ran the Target Analyzer Probe to create a devices.pmq file. Now we are getting into Component Designer. We're importing the pmq file. You want to create a log file (same dir if you want). This could take a while....

The Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2006 is having the pre-conf tutorials today. I'm in the middle of the hands on lab for XP embedded. This is not the main reason for my being here. I'm going down the Mobile Development track, but I think the embedded stuff is cool, neat, nifty, whatever.

Maybe I'll keep posting about this thing.

We are using Microsoft Target Designer and a couple of Virtual PCs to test this stuff out.